RESUME of BENJAMIN S. SMITH ____________________________________________________________ One Reynolds Drive / Peterborough, New Hampshire 03458 / (603) 924-4131 August 1994 - present SYSTEMS INTEGRATION ENGINEER RONIN HOUSE Design, programming, and inte- 1 Reynolds Drive gration of UNIX systems and Peterborough, NH 03458 multiprotocol networks. WWW (603) 924-4131 utilities and CGI (Common Gateway Interface) programs. Systems Management tools and supervision for UNIX site and ISPs (Internet Service Providers in Northern New Eng- land). Major Projects: NPS (Network Print System) for Mas- sachusettes General Hospital (15 buildings, a dozen oper- ating systems, ten-thousand users, and two thousand print- ers). WWW search engine interface for Polaroid Corpora- tion. UNIX-based offline storage for Xerox Docutech print- ing systems (Valley Copy Inc.). WWW based catalog for J. Crow, Inc.. The primary tool for all of this work is the Perl Language. October 1988 - August 1994 TECHNICAL EDITOR/AUTHOR BYTE Magazine Editing, research, and writ- One Phoenix Mill Lane ing; developing and managing Peterborough, NH 03458 columns and columnists; devel- (603) 924-9281 opment of software for testing and evaluating UNIX systems; system management; Solutions Focus and reviews. Major Projects: BYTE UNIX Lab, A networked collection of UNIX machines and a suite of benchmarking programs for evaluating the performance and useablility of UNIX sys- tems. Major articles on internationalization of software, the state of the UNIX industry, and UNIX workstation re- views. Independent of BYTE: author of UNIX Step-by-Step, Howard W. Sams, 1990; revision author of UNIX System Ad- ministration, (original authors: Fiedler and Hunter), Howard W. Sams, revised edition 1991. May 1986 - October 1988 TECHNICAL RESEARCH/WRITER, PROGRAMMER, CUSTOMER SUPPORT Integrated Decision Systems Research, technical writing, 1950 South Sawtelle, Suite 2design and programming of sev- Los Angeles, California 9002eral product modules, develop- (213) 478-4015 ment of customer support de- partment, and presentation of technical information at sales meetings. Major Projects: Investment Manager II, an Informix-ESQL/C application for Bank Trust Departments, Investment Man- agers, and Brokerage Houses. This progam tracks all trans- actions in portfolios, generates portfolio appraisals, performance reports, and reports required by SEC for in- vestment management firms. There are more than a half- million lines of source code. May 1985 - May 1986 MANAGER OF SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT - PROGRAMMER/ANALYST Fortex Enterprises Design and administration of 535 North Brand Blvd. - #102UNIX program development; man- Glendale, California 91206agement and coordination of (818) 956-0838 software engineers; develop- ment of sales literature and presentations; porting of software from MS-DOS & CCOS to UNIX-V. Major projects: StarFire - dual-language (Arabic/English) office automation system on UNIX systems; StarCalc - dual- language spreadsheet; StarEdit - dual-language program- mer's editor. December 1980 - May 1985 LECTURER, SOFTWARE DESIGNER, PROGRAMMER Smith Design Lecturing to micro-computer Fairbanks, Alaska owners on the use of their (907) 455-6695 computers, software, and the use and structure of the CP/M operating system; also pro- gramming in C, PASCAL and dBase. Major projects: Design and programming of an accounting system for a local contracting firm; general ledger system for a law firm; MEDIA SERVICES Archival Film Project: Data Base construction including free-form data parsing; CHAM- BER OF COMMERCE: Information system design and program- ming; SOHIO ALASKA PETROLEUM: training in micro-computer literacy and dBaseII application development; FAA: equip- ment maintenance scheduling and reporting system; OIL DE- LIVERY COMPANY: weather-based delivery scheduling and re- porting system; UofA DEPARTMENT OF CONFERENCES AND INSTI- TUTES: design and programming of information and account- ing system. PERSONAL INFORMATION: BORN: July 18, 1945 Torrington, Connecticut MILITARY: US ARMY (1968-1970) honorable discharge - Good Conduct Award - Soldier of the Month; MOS: meteorological technician and electronic technician RESIDENCE: Peterborough, New Hampshire FORMER RESIDENCES: Glendale, California (2 years); Fair- banks, Alaska (10 years) EDUCATION: University of Alaska, Fairbanks: Courses: Arctic Engineering, Pascal, Data Structures University of Arizona, Tucson: Bachelor of Architecture (1972-1975) (not completed) Degree BSEE (1964-1967) (not completed) Rincon High School, Tucson, Arizona: Graduated 1964 INTERESTS and HOBBIES: Sailing, painting, and stage magic SUMMARY OF SKILLS: My most valuable talent is in solving complex problems either as an individual or by building project teams to solve the problem. Even when the teams that I have managed were given unrealistic schedules and substandard tools, the teams succeed- ed in producing polished finished projects through pride in work, esprit de corps, and mutual appreciation of the skills of the members. PERSONAL OBJECTIVES: I enjoy using my experience in design and software engineering, and, more especially, the ``total process'' of design. The ``total process'' means the work of developing fitting solu- tions to complex problems.